Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] md: Don't set MD_BROKEN for RAID1 and RAID10 when using FailFast

[Martin Wilck]

Hi Kenta,

On Wed, 2026-09-23 at 04:08 +0000, Kenta Akagi wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> I have not given up on it, but I have not managed to post v7 yet.
> I still think failfast should be usable even in setups like that.
> 
> It has been a while, but I intend to resume work on it.

My thinking is that, in the fastfail case, code to prevent total
failure could be placed in the end-IO code code path, e.g. by
attempting a retry directly from the md layer when the last rdev fails,
instead of setting failing the device. But I haven't thought it
through.

Thanks
Martin

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